Thanking Lukas again!!: I never 'got' Lalo Schifrin back in the day or even recently - although I thought he did a marvelous, under-rated job with the 'Rush Hour' movies.

Because I had a hankering for some swinging 60's music I decided to pick up the FSM 5-CD Lalo set. Through the years I've had - and got rid of - Lalo albums like 'The Liquidator', 'Sol Madrid' and 'Once a Thief', etc. Now I understand why I never liked those albums. They were comprised of most of the source music or re-recordings from those films with little or no of the dramatic underscore.

Lalo's dramatic underscores to 'Rhino', 'Venetian Affair', 'Once a Thief', etc. are a major revelation. He's up there with the greats as far as I'm concerned now. This is a wonderful set!

There’s also some more of his Warner Bros. work that might be available to FSM, assuming that we haven’t already heard all that there is to hear on some of these titles that Schifrin has released on his Aleph label:

Nice box set for sure. Not sure why I never posted. Oh well... All great records, and one of my favorites is the New Orleans Funeral March from the Cincy Kid, and with the visuals of the procession in the film, this is really timeless stuff.

But, if anyone has the set, I made a pdf of the relevant artifacts, etc. It's basically the same way I did the Ben Hur one. It's about 60-pages, and includes some graphics, movie posters, stills, etc. If anyone is interested, pop me a note at my fsm id on aol.

There’s also some more of his Warner Bros. work that might be available to FSM, assuming that we haven’t already heard all that there is to hear on some of these titles that Schifrin has released on his Aleph label:

Hunter [TV movie] (1973)

It was officially achieved in 1971 but the Studio kept it on the shelf until 1973.